Joana Maria
Pujadas Mora

Joana Maria Pujadas Mora is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She has been a visiting researcher with competitive funding at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), the Centre for Population Studies (Umeå University, Sweden), the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR, University of Michigan, United States) and the Centre for Economic Demography (Lund University, Sweden). Her research career centres on modern and contemporary history, especially the areas of social history, historical demography and economic history. Her lines of research contribute to the following topics:  The importance of public health policies and social and healthcare institutions in reducing mortality during the demographic transition (19th-20th centuries).  The dynamics of epidemics in the epidemiological transition (19th-20th centuries).  Reducing the time needed to construct individual demographic databases using artificial intelligence (AI).  A long-term view of changes in migratory flows (15th-20th centuries).  The intergenerational transfer of occupations, social position and marriage between relatives in the social reproduction process.  Estimates of economic inequality and the formation of labour markets from a gender perspective in the pre-industrial and industrial eras.